SWVHSC: Micro-Interview – Plextrac & Spirion – Dan DeCloss, Gabe Gumbs – ESW #195

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Guests

Dan DeCloss
Founder & CTO at PlexTrac

Dan DeCloss, the founder and CTO of PlexTrac, has over 17 years of experience in cybersecurity. Dan started his career in the Department of Defense and then moved on to the private sector where he worked for various companies including Telos, Veracode, Mayo Clinic, and Anthem. Dan’s background is in application security and penetration testing, involving hacking networks, websites, and mobile applications for clients. Prior to PlexTrac, Dan was the director of cybersecurity for Scentsy where he and his team built the security program out of its infancy into a best-in-class program.

Dan has a master’s degree in Computer Science from the Naval Postgraduate School with an emphasis in Information Security. Additionally, Dan holds the OSCP and CISSP certifications. Dan has a passion for helping everyone understand cybersecurity at a practical level, ensuring that focus is on the right work to reduce risk.

Gabe Gumbs
Chief Innovation Officer at Spirion

As Spirion’s Chief Innovation Officer, Gabriel imagines and create technology that pushes data security technology forward in an increasingly complex digital world. Responsible for seeing where data security is going next and ensuring that organizations of all sizes are able to get there. With a 18+ year tenure in CyberSecurity, he has spent most of that time as a security practitioner, aligning security innovations with business objectives for Fortune 100 organizations, today Gabe is responsible for spearheading innovation across the organization through thought and product leadership.